Sunday 13 May 2012

Goal update, random pics, and some music

Rain is my friend, and I
am fascinated by raindrops.
Another week has come to a close. In general, I've been rather busy. My weekend was a little crazy, and I'm glad it's over, even if it had many fun moments. I caught up with lots of different groups of friends and family. In my family we've had two babies born in May (both on May 1st, actually! And both of them girls!), so I got to meet the locally-born baby on Saturday for the first time. In June I'll meet the other baby, who is my niece. Can't wait for that! Anyway, I hope you all have had great weekends too, and are continuing in that vein for the remainder of your Sundays.


This was a recent sky. There
are a lot of skies around here.
Now time for a creative update! What have I been up to lately? Well, I've got many varied goals for this year, one of which includes writing a new song each week. I had fallen behind with that during my recent travels, but I'm all caught up now (or I was last weekend, anyway...). I'm also well ahead of schedule with two of my other goals - the photo sorting and the revision of one WIP chapter per week. In most other areas, though, I'm either only just keeping up or am well behind. I'm not worried, as I know I can catch up. It's just not ideal being so far behind in some areas.


This is one of my weirdo cats,
drinking out of a sink...
In other news, it's Sunday, and time for another Sunday Session! This last week, the song I've apparently listened to most has been the Smashing Pumpkins' b-side "French Movie Theme", a 1:51 song whose lyrics mainly consist of "Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah..." with the occasional "Bonjour!" thrown in. Genius lyrics, I tell you, but it's a pretty song and I love the bassline. Unfortunately there aren't any videos on YouTube of the proper version, only a demo in which somebody messes up the chords and Billy Corgan then proceeds to tell that person off for getting the chords wrong. "I can't believe you messed that up...!" Anyway, I think this week's results in the music listening game go to show that one can never tell what song is going to come out on top!

I'll bid you all good night now, and wish you a good rest of the weekend if you aren't at the very end of it, like I am. And happy Mother's Day to all the mamas out there! Including mamas who are just kitty or doggy or other pet-ty mamas, like me. ;) I got felines, and they sure can be sooky!

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  1. Pet momma Happy Mother's Day to you!
    Song writing amazes me...I couldn't ever imagine being so gifted as to be able to match words to rhythm. Awesome stuff.

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    1. Don't know that you have to be all that gifted, haha

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  2. Congrats on the two little additions! :)

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  3. May you reach all your goals and may today be special.

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  4. Congrats on the new babies in the family, and for catching up on your goals!

    Kitty mama's deserve a hug on Mother's Day, too. :)

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  5. You sound really busy. Wish I was musical - my husband laughs when I sing with the headphones on. I sound good to me, lol. Good luck with your goals :)

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    1. I never sound any good with headphones on! It's like I can't hear myself well enough.

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  6. Thanks for the updates. I've never been a fan of Smashing Pumpkins, but I love hearing about what kind of music people from around the world are listening to.

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  7. Belonging to a school where all female teachers are called "Mah", I count myself as an honorary mother ;-) And it seems I never know the songs you're talking about! (Though I do, at least, know who the Smashing Pumpkins are!)

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    1. There's a lotta music out there I don't know either, but I always like to learn! :)

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  8. Love the idea of writing a new song! One of our cats drinks from the faucet too.

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  9. I need to train my cat better, he only drinks from a catfountain (yes: a fountain designed for cat-drinking). :-)

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    1. I didn't have to do anything to train my cat, he just butted into my life interrupting my teeth-brushing ;)

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  10. Sounds like you're keeping busy! I feel like babies are being born all over the place in my life, too :)

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    1. Yeah, me too, lots of friends and now the two family babies :)

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  11. I swear you are the busiest person I know. How the he** do you have time to do bloghops, work full time, keep the writing goals you do and have any kind of social life? I mean I barely find time to comment anymore and if I do I have stolen from my writing time- gack!

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